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Nov 9, 1885

Journal Entry

November 09, 1885 ~ Monday

9 [FIGURE] Letters to Sarah, & Wm H. Thompson My wife Phebe
is vary low Bulah thought she was dying wrote to Nellie


[FIGURES] At 6 oclock I called to see my wife
Phebe who was vary low I laid my hands upon
her head & Blessed her And anointed her for her burial
and at 2 oclok she died. Thus we part after living together
48 years & 6 months in the Marriage Covenant

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Woodruff, Beulah Augusta Beatie
19 Jul 1851 - 13 Jan 1905
248 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Emma Manella
4 Jul 1860 - 30 Nov 1905
238 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1547 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
695 mentions
Family
Thompson, William Henry
1 May 1838 - 3 Apr 1922
260 mentions
Missionary

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Nov 9, 1885